“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition.” <\/i>– Barack Obama, Knox College Commencement address, 2005\n<\/p>\n
\nIt must suck to be Hillary Clinton these days. Victory is in your grasp, so close you can almost taste it: you can be the first woman President in history. After years of clawing your way to the top of the political dung heap, shaking sweaty hands, eating rubber chicken at fundraisers, kissing farty-smelling children and covering the ass of a goat of a husband who dry humps anything that will hold still, you’ve paid your dues. But it all boils down to this: you’re going to lose a game you invented yourself. And the winner will be a guy who’s almost exactly like your husband: articulate, smart, charming–and quite calculating.\n<\/p>\n
\n“He doesn’t walk around saying he’s the next Lincoln or JFK, but he’s also not in Washington to be just another senator.”
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\n – anonymous staffer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nNo, he’s not. I voted for Obama in 2004, impressed by that glowing centrist speech he gave that brought down the house. I thought he had character. What the hell was I thinking? Washington draws the power-hungry like a turd draws flies. Within a year, I recognized him for the fake he is. Voting down the highly qualified Justice Roberts was the tipoff. Even the Washington Post<\/i> endorsed Roberts. It was the calculated move of a man with his eye on the White House, a guy trying to play both sides. \n<\/p>\n
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Since he’s been in office, he’s been a low-key, but mainline liberal voter<\/a>: No to Bolton, No to CAFTA, No to ANWR, Yes to Civil Rights for Terrorists, Yes to every social activist program. With a couple of exceptions the media trots out to accentuate his so-called centrism, he is a classic leftist<\/a> trying to pass himself off as a centrist–just like Bill. In fact, he may be brighter than Bill: writing a book that pre-emptively exposes your youthful cocaine snorting is nothing less than genius.\n<\/p>\n
\nLeft out of the breathless accounts of his centrism are items like these discovered by the Washington Times <\/a>in 2004:
\n<\/p>\n\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 In October 2002, Mr. Obama said that the buildup to the war against Saddam Hussein was just a political diversion concocted by Bush political adviser Karl Rove….
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\n \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 Mr. Obama has been endorsed by the anti-defense organization Council for a Livable World, which supports cuts in defense spending and opposes missile defense.
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\n \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a2 Mr. Obama supports gun-control laws across the board. As an official at the Illinois State Riflle Association told us, “Mr. Obama is about as liberal as you can get” on the question of gun ownership.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n